“Flower,…
…the reproductive portion of any plant in the division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae),…
…a group commonly called flowering plants…
…or angiosperms….
As popularly used, the term “flower” especially applies…
…when part or all of the reproductive structure is distinctive in colour…
and form.”
https://www.britannica.com/science/flower
The traveler’s palm, the water oak, the Number Eleven mango tree all line up against the goodnight sky.
We moved to Mona Heights more than fifty years ago and although we never lived on Daisy Avenue, I knew it well. I haven’t lived in Mona for decades now, but drive through often. When I saw this view recently as I drove up Daisy Avenue, I stopped to take some photos…
…two magnificent Royal Palms stood guard in someone’s yard…
…shadows on a trunk…
…leaves against the sky…
…a few moments one afternoon, on Daisy Avenue, Mona Heights…
Nature has its way of doing this, distracting you with its beauty. Sitting at Gloria’s Seafood restaurant at Victoria Pier on Kingston Harbour a few weeks ago, I wasn’t thinking much about how long it was taking for the food to arrive, the seriously polluted state of the harbour or the current events and governance issues that had been my day’s focus. I was captivated by clouds above the horizon…
…trees silhouetted against the sky…
…and the setting sun….
Even the buildings looked better at that time of day…
When you look up, you see the leaves on the tree…
…when you look down, you see the leaves on the ground…
…brown…
…dried and curling…
…beautifully lined…
Look closer…
…at fallen leaves…
It’s a week since the New Year began. I had planned to do this post last week to welcome the new year. I had intended to write a much longer, more reflective post, but I didn’t. So here are the two photos I was going to use to illustrate that more interesting post that I didn’t write.
Any morning that I head to the roof to watch the sun rise, I am never quite sure what I will see. Even as I climb the spiral staircase, navigating the narrow space left by the recently installed guttering, I am uncertain what will greet me. Like the morning I took this series of photos…a chilly, overcast morning. Grey was the main colour, as I sat and drank my tea. Little did I know the drama that was about to unfold!
A heavy bank of clouds hung low in the eastern sky, over a bowl where two hills overlapped. As the sunlight began to shine up from behind the hills, a pink pattern started to appear on the clouds.
I realised that nature was deciding to dance this morning and I was a lucky witness! Brighter pink and over a larger area of cloud…
And this was the finale! The sky on fire…transformed…
Tea forgotten; no journaling done. I watched, transfixed. Bathed in this sunrise surprise….
